If given the opportunity to fire nothing but AP, Florida does really well. Frankly, this is only going to happen if your opponents are idiots. You have to remain flexible with her ammunition choices. Keep the Expert Loader skill in mind. It's very handy for this ship if you're going to build a dedicated Florida captain. Thank you @LittleWhiteMouse. Build for fire-resistance first, then double back for your other skills. You see, the normal American tech-tree battleships have an artificial boost added to their engines -- they don't bleed speed like normal battleships do. LittleWhiteMouse, October 12, 2020 in General Game Discussion. I am endlessly grateful for the opportunity and help he provided for me. For personal reasons, he had to step back from World of Warships. As the CC program again got overhauled, Wargaming dropped his CC-status despite his continued efforts to host and support other CCs. Sadly, Ship Comrade was never a profitable enterprise. Donations helped keep the lights on for a time, but all things must come to an end. He ran the site out of his own pocket for over five years. I don't fault him in the least for retiring. Great work . as usual. Thank you @LittleWhiteMouse. This is a top-down view of California with her 343mm belt highlighted in red. Hes played the game since then but you can tell he has not played it much based on HOW he plays some ships. Im gonna judge based on the review its probably a Mehbote. Nothing can touch California, though, which sits smack in the middle of the tier VIII American BB range, rubbing elbows with Alabama, North Carolina and everyone's favourite: Massachusetts. I'll play a shoddy ship back to back for hundreds of games provided she's fun (I've done it too -- I loved Atlanta before Surveillance Radar was a thing). But seeing how she was being released reminded me of why I write these reviews in the first place: To protect other players from making bad purchases. Furthermore, it's not going to put off a determined tier VIII carrier even for a moment. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of this graphic. This speaks a lot to how badly the skill system needs to be reworked given how optimized skill choices have become. Solid rearward firing angles, well suited to kiting. California, like most of her standard battleship relatives, features a 26mm bow, stern, and most of her deck. While at lower tiers this may be enough to deflect enemy fire, the normalization of the 406mm or higher guns at tier VIII and IX means that players will have to be careful in engagements against most higher tier battleships. The final difference is cost. Thx mouse. And another premium ship to skip, even Zoup has a different opinion. I wanna gloat like a happy teaboo, but Florida's health is just too appallingly low for me for me to brag with good conscience. Her lacking an entire Repair Party charge just feels mean. This means for California to be worth her price tag, she's gotta make it up elsewhere. California has tier VI firepower with tier VII range. (Arizona has a strip of 37mm armour above her belt while California's upper hull is only 26mm). Her 356mm AP rounds overmatch a maximum of 24mm worth of plate and there's a whole lot of structural steel within her matchmaking that's 25mm or thicker. Mileage probably determined on if you want a premium USN BB for Narai or not. You can find a Pow Wow somewhere close to you! The uptick was led by a spike in homicide. There should be no surprises for anyone here. Arizona is "long ranged" for a tier VI battleship once you install Gun Fire Control System Modification 1, so you largely duplicate California's schtick there too. They'd also have to stop with things like secondary's being a national flavour thing. She could have ended up like Poltava with a max of 4 charges of heals. Florida is 10-6 when scoring more than 69.3 points. Fair enough. Granted I have California too (mostly due to 1. Historical Ship and 2. Native Californian) but she is a slow girl relegated to sitting COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in California vs Florida in Spring 2021 and Cumulative Through April 2021. As we've already covered, she doesn't really have that much better of a chance of doing so than Arizona. Once upon a time, seeing a ship with this much AA would have made me very excited. If I can help others avoid that, I will. While tier VI carriers have to respect your AA firepower they can still strike you. When it comes to my battleships, I know what I like. That fact has lingered with me but perhaps I can make her work better than most. You can see just how massive her 35mm anti-torpedo bulges are. If they don't want people comparing her to Arizona, Arizona needs to be pulled. Once you start stacking on any other flaws and they just become unpalatable -- and California's gun handling and reload are some pretty wonky flaws, especially when paired with her slow speed. California is a hard pass. The Rattlers have not entered a game this season with longer moneyline odds Shots are coming in from right to left with Fuso bow-tanking. The LSU Tigers womens basketball team strung together its second-straight win since a disappointing loss to South Carolina on Sunday, beating Florida on the road 90-79. If for any particular reason I needa fast American battleship, I have Georgia.. With Arizona existing, Wargaming should have either retired the Pearl Harbor monument or dredged up something from their box o' gimmicks for California to compensate. This is why I prefer Lyon over them, but Gnei/Sharn are quite good for Narai too. This season, Florida A&M has been the underdog 19 times and won four, or 21.1%, of those games. California isn't broken, she's just not over-tuned the way Arizona is. Still, she's not far removed from Arizona -- like, the differences are barely perceptible. It isn't anywhere near as vulnerable. Simply put, it's the only thing which makes this ship viable as a tier VII vessel and even then it barely passes muster. However, the larger map sizes makes this a lot more problematic. I'm constantly fighting with her rudder or her guns and she has nothing I value to compensate for it. You probably want, Arizona & California's Main Battery Differences. Without allies to road-block, California will be run down, sneaky or not. The totals have gone OVER in 3 of Queens' last 5 games. Usually it comes down to the captain to decide if a ship is worth it or not. For example, I loved the Hipper class and Prinz Eugen while most view Where she stands head and shoulders above many reviewers is that she lays out all the high and low points, so that the intelligent reader can decide for themselves whether it's a ship they want for the game they prefer to play. She doesn't get access to Aiming Systems Modification 1 to reduce her main battery gun dispersion. Hard pass, ladies and gentlemen. Good concealment with a surface detection as low as 11.8km. This ship is slow. It had a good run.. I have no idea why Wargaming didn't provide her with the tech-tree style energy preservation. VERDICT: She's squishy -- squishier than the usual tier VII battleship and they struggle a lot with durability. Decent gunnery dispersion with 1.9 sigma. This isn't exactly welcome for such a slow brick with a big squishy snoot to boop. 356mm guns lack overmatching ability against targets with 25mm+ extremities. Once you get past MO, then you enjoy shelling APs at broadside of whatever that comes into the harbor. Summary so far: California's agility is absolutely appalling and worse than it had to be. The moneyline odds say Florida has a 62.3% chance of winning this game. I don't want to touch California. California's protection scheme is decent for a tier VII battleship but it's nothing special either short of her anti-torpedo protection (which is good but not as amazing as the size of her bulges would suggest). Time to re-use a graphic because battleship skill optimization has stagnated! Wow California is finally upon us? Great work as always, Mouse! Make no mistakes, Florida is a tricky girl, but if you figure her out she will do very well in Narai. Otherwise, any of the other T7 BB's will be easier to run with. Gnei/Sharn is possibly more fun (depends on each person), but their guns are a lot less punchy compared to Lyon/Ashitaka, so you need to effectively use your torps. I give this rating 5 out of 10. Coz no mehbote to gudbote rating, except angry anime girl gif Despite constant suggestions to give her improved accuracy and/or range on her secondaries, Wargaming wouldn't budge on keeping them standardized. Carriers must anticipate that she will always have Defensive AA Fire ready and it's best to bait its use by ducking in and out of her 5.8km bubble and then waiting it out, even if she's not your primary target. Florida is effectively a no-fly zone for tier VI carriers because of this consumable and raw AA power combination which is a pretty impressive boast. Add on a catapult fighter and Florida duplicates this for tier VIII carriers too, at least until she comes under sustained HE attack. That hurts given her inability to overmatch 25mm armour that's so commonplace within her matchmaking spread. However, she has enough problems already without considering CV strikes. Well, this accidentally turned into a much longer review than I had intended. I was originally just going to line up Florida alongside California, compare the two and then pull a surprise-reveal that they both suck equally. Instead, I learned last week that Ship Comrade, the site run by @Critter8 that has hosted my reviews since the first quarter of 2016 was going to close down. Instead of working on how to cleverly cast shade on anyone that enjoyed either one of these tier VII American premium battleships, I spent the better part of two days going through years worth of archived jpegs and text, reflecting on the years I've spent writing for World of Warships and all of the help, support and encouragement Critter8 provided me. Based on this contests moneyline, Southern has an implied win probability of 76.2%. +1 on the review but I am enjoying the Florida. Base/Minimum Surface Detection: 13.86km / 12.1kmBase/Minimum Air Detection Range: 10.08km/9.07kmDetection Range When Firing in Smoke: 12.01kmMaximum Firing Range: Between 18.62km and 25.92km, Flordia's concealment values are pretty darned good. She doesn't quite get into that magical sub-12km surface detection range which is quite impressive for a battleship, but at least she gets close. Given her preferred engagement distance, it's pretty easy for this ship to drop off from detection range in typical encounters -- especially given her long reload. If she had a bit more grunt in her engines, controlling the engagement through use of her stealth would be a lot more feasible, but her 27 knot top speed just isn't enough to kite away from all of the battleships she faces, to say nothing of cruisers and destroyers.. They need to get rid of that junk mod they added that makes it all torps are spotted at 1.8 km cause especially against slower torps, like USN's, there's almost no excuse to not dodge torps if you take it. ET. The final thing to keep in mind is that because of her long range, every time she pulls the trigger, she rings the dinner bell. Queens are 3-2 in their last 5 games against the spread. Florida can land a lot of hits with her HE shells. Another review done really well. This is in contrast to Arizona which has like no practical AA to speak of. You need speed to reach thatposition in time, but if you do, you can sink MO in two salvos, allowing you to not rely on torps by other ships to take it down. He approached me about my frustrations with Club Wargaming and he took an active leadership role among the various content creators to approach Wargaming about our complaints. It was by his initiative that the WGNA CC-program took shape under NikoPower (of CorgiFleet fame). From those conversations, @iChase, @NoZoupForYou, @Notser, @TitiuBlack, Critter8 and I became the first NA-CCs in early January of 2016. While I could gush endlessly about everything NikoPower did for us, it was Critter8 who stands out as the leader we needed. He brought the six of us would-be professionals (with integrity) together. I should preface this by saying that I love the American standard-type battleships. In theory, California has some pretty good AP damage output. Make it that maybe it's worth making a sneakierBB build to sort of flank an enemy team when in a faster one then surprise them., Unless you remove skill entirely - there will never be no 'optimal build' for a ship, even a type may still have one that is considered overall 'better' than the others - but they can at least make it choosing to run secondary build on German and French BB's is a choice in style more than a handicap. Small hit point pool for a tier VII battleship. That just makes her easy meat for enterprising lolibotes. On the other hand, Main Battery: Twelve 356mm/50 guns in 4x3 turrets in an A-B-X-Y superfiring configuration.Secondary Battery: Sixteen 127mm/38 guns in 8x2 turrets in superfiring pairs on either side of the ship facing fore and aft. Were it not for her horribly slow speed, I'd have given her a 'simple' rating. Some places in Florida have been ranked 8% Oh well, missed opportunities. Top Speed: 27 knotsTurning Radius: 760mRudder Shift Time: 15.4 seconds4/4 Engine Speed Rate of Turn: 4.1/s. USN could choose between type of plane, type of ordnance, etc. California is a longer ranged Arizona with slightly improved damage output between better AP shells and a faster reload. against a destroyer at stupid-close ranges. But against any other target, her HE is just found wanting. Historical Ship and 2. Florida is the state that more or less stayed open during the pandemic and thrived in its defiance. 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